Craig Angus 13 December 2017 Critically acclaimed musical romantic comedy-drama, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, to screen at the Palladium La La Land is to be shown at the London Palladium with musical accompaniment from a live orchestra on Fri 13 Apr. Presale tickets for the show go on sale at 10am on Thu…

Directed by Joseph David Bowes Starring Kevin Croak, Eve Cusack, Peter Murphy, David Bakman and Jake Viaene Short Film Review by Annie Vincent A scathing satire on the pharmaceutical industry, Pharma Lab Training Video: 1 is a witty, retro film that will appeal to fans of subversive comedy. Adjusting her headset, a young prospective internship…

Katherine McLaughlin 12 December 2017 credit: Lucasfilm Ltd. Looper’s Rian Johnson delivers the goods with this thrilling addition to the space opera The eighth episode in the Star Wars saga sees the Empire strike back hard and Rey (Daisy Ridley) meet with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) to learn all about the force. This may sound…

★★★★ Written & Directed by Zach Zeman Starring Noah Schindler, Ryan Sliwinski, Mason Taylor, Rieves Bowers, Jake Dogias, Marisa Roper Indie Film Review by Taryll Baker Satirical mockumentaries are a hard subject to tackle, but Zach Zeman’s Hunters’ Crossing manages to capture the brilliance of such a genre and creates some of the most ridiculous…

Allan Hunter 11 December 2017 Sweeping portrait of friendship spanning a quarter of a century, from Chinese director Jia Zhangke Mountains May Depart, from director Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin, Still Life), has all the sweep and emotion of a great epic novel. Mixing classic melodrama with futuristic speculation, it captures the changing face…

Emma Simmonds 11 December 2017 Brazilian drama made and performed with vigour but whose sympathetic skew leaves a sour taste The Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning editor Daniel Rezende (City of God) makes his directorial debut with a semi-biographical, 80s-set film that documents the rise and fall of a Brazilian kids’ TV presenter in an explosion of colour,…

Emma Simmonds 11 December 2017 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau shines in a compassionate, beautifully lensed crime thriller With its emotional resonance amplified by leading man Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s haunting performance, the fourth narrative feature from writer-director Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch) sees a man lose his life of privilege only to be reborn as a powerful gangster. Recalling Michael…

Arusa Qureshi 11 December 2017 Clueless / courtesy of Park Circus/Paramount Catch simultaneous screenings of Gregory’s Girl and Clueless, followed by an 80s v 90s disco Over the years, the annual special events programme at the Glasgow Film Festival has become one of the most popular and widely anticipated additions to the festival itself. Last…

Hannah McGill 11 December 2017 Affable documentary from Sonia Kronlund following Afghanistan’s most prolific filmmaker ‘Nothingwood’ describes the status, according to this film’s central figure, of the Afghan film industry. And he should know, for Salim Shaheen is its most prolific moviemaker; a chubby, magnanimous, indefatigably self-confident creator of self-starring mini-epics that appear to combine…